The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1909, Page 1

y — WEATHER-—Fair to-night and Thursday; colder, ‘ | “ Circulat Open to All ion Books P RICE ONE CENT. POLIGE FIGHT WD “OBO 2000\N ROT VER WOMAN NF peewee) == ~ BUN THIRD DAY Zast Side. “VICTIM” WAS FAKING, Heads Battered and Clothe Torn—Man and Three Women Arrested. Big Cunarder Only 840 Miles Oit Sandy Hook at Noon To-Day, Ove of the police for years n One Hur ‘and Secon: t, near Second a shap or bad weather ts en- to-day glant Mauretania, now tor p Atlantie at a rate ecores ea If, the breaker ripped ve H yualled, will dows 1. The police arrow might—the fighting tie mob, with th boat in the history of in full play ed vayd voyane ‘ect from the great ship's reached the Cunard line and ofs and windows. thre The direct cau Wa8) office ernoon, showed that he the arrest of Harr ealer!ivas. si ving his ship at the same Jn dried One | surpal had been de- x bed r messages of yes. lay and the day vefore. ‘To-day's wireless from Capt. John chard read as follows: Wednesday,—Run for the past ‘four hours, 68 knots, We are 40 miles east of Sandy Huok light. t , All| by @ revolver shot Inside the cab, t, which doctors * well Then Shot Himself. ant One Hun: | Nearly Monday's Record, Simultaneously with the report the | dred and t station, p- | Yest s message, Hke to-day’s,| tront window of the cab was shattered pened to be at the time and | was diately after the taking | and the driver heard the whiz of a made his way through the crowd that) of observation, While It bullet over his shoulder, had collected w Goldman was ar- | told ¢ n that exceeded the} A moment later, Becker declares, the rested. Then the first angry murmur | last showing by three knots, tt did not/man in the cab yelled excitedly, “drive and | the same enthusiasm es people which the roused, for to-day’s t the unprecedented jun of Tuesday was not merely @ spurt an dthat th Mauretania mis: haps, Is golng to make a de |thon of it this trip ) Tuesday n the Mai practically half of the long west- ttle more than two days aining an average of 2% knots an hour, whereas the best pre- vious averages had been 2.2), done by the same boat, on her last trip east- nd 25.05, done by her sister ship, Lusitanta, ‘The Mauretania passed Daunt's Rock off Queenstown Sunday morning at 9.45 o'clock, Greenwich time, At noon of that day she had logged 61 knots, Be- tween Sunday noon and Monday noon she did 671 knots, whereas as the best single day's showing before that had bee., 66) Knots, scored by the Lusitania, 1,382 Knots in Two Days, Between noon Monday and nooa yev- terday, first wireless, the Mauretania logged 17 pgainst the police was heard. Bas qiisregarded it and picking the shi ng, writhing woman up in bls aris, cormied her into the kroom of Star Laundry at No East One Hun- Gred and Second eet | Mob Quickly Gathers. The Star laundry is Israel Lowenthal and his wife Sadie When tre ambular from. Hospital, driven by Andy McEy Dr. Gillette on the rear seat, arriy the driver had to whip up his stout] cheated old gray to force a path through | the crowd. In the meantime the sergeant at the East One Hundred and Fourth street station, who had received the aabu- Jance call, had sent a young policeman named Jerry McCauley around to see what the trouble was, The yours} Dluecoat got there just as England and Dr. Gillette were making their way In, Mrs. Lowenthal protested against the impropriety of leaving Mrs. Gold- man alone with a hospital doctor, so she was allowed to stay. The police: man started shoving all the rest out of the place. They went as unresistingly sheep until Lowenthal shouted at to arou iB the last word conducted by main a af knots. The total run up to then had the top of his voice: | om, | been 18% knots, ‘The long wiater track ‘They are going to kill her! The) ove. conch she is travelling toward Christians mean to kill her!" Woman Used Cleaver. New York 4s 2,80 miles, It will be sovn, sun time, 2! days, ; minutes, real time, Mauretanla then only lacked en miles of having covered half the run, Should she maintain the gait him down he skipped back vhrough the cvawd. ‘As the policemen were shoving the people in the shop through the varrow door and preparing, if necessary, to bar- rloade the place and stand a Mrs.|she was then hitting up, she would Lowenthal rusted in from the } reach Ambrose Lightship at $ o'clock with a big cleaver. She was Just about | to-morrow night, with a total time of to bring ft down on MoCauley's skull| four days, fifteen hours and fifteen when Dr. Gillette cried: |minutes, just fifteen minutes longer than “Look out!” | the best time of the Lusitania over the ‘The ety saved McCauley’s life, He|short course, which measures 110 miles leaped back just in time to escape more less than the route the Mauretania ts severe injuries than a ripped uniform. | now travelling. With howls of deflance the mob tried| In the same ratio, the Mauretania, to smash into Lowenthal's store. The| coming on the short route, would make windows were smashed and the daor | it in four days, eleven hours and fifteen carried off its hinges, but Dr, Gillette| minutes, or four hours better than has and the two policemen inside fought the | ever been done. crowd back and held the fort, Out in| However, Vernon M. Brown, agent of the street the reserves were beating |the Cunard Line, is hopeful that Capt. 4 hours The sixty back the crowd with their nightsticka | Pritchard has speeded up to a trifle above twenty-six knots in the hope of into swinging with the regularity of piston rods, Several of the women in the crowd fainted. Besides the two Lowenthals tl G rested Sophie Sonner, of Cne Hundred and second street getting New York on Thursday evening, something heretofore undream: ed of in winter travelling, as it would four-day boat Gimons, of No. a2 East One Iu ly crowding on Mr, Brown thought art : | Capt. Priteha d pars Sandy i00k id Second street, and Rowe Aul fl in daylight to W afterneud, com. No. 9M East One Hundred and Fourth ing diect up through the Ambrose street, It took all the reserves to joad| Channel to her dock. the prisoners into the patrol wagoa aud drive them to the police station, [Phen a ever & Muslo, N ; GSENT nepiaushets Pisnet owen newse IS O68 KNOTS - | pital door, Becker summoned the night when Pritchard shot out his therefore, that the great Cunarder had|She and Knaut had been friends for Before McCauley's club could knock} then travelled 2 days, 2 hours and 15/several years, Her father is George entitle the Mauretania to call herself a | . | firwt-cvasa downto! NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY AULUED GIRL GRL “NO HISELF NUTINI — | Murderer, After Shooting Girl, | Orders Chauffeur to Speed to Hospital. pace ty | THEN FIRES INTO HEART. | Two in Reading Tragedy Were | Sweethearts and Their Mar- | riage Was Expected. READING, Pa, Feb. 17,—While speeding in a taxicab here early to-day Stella Rocktashel, aged elghteen years, | was shot and killed by her co.upanton, George E. Knaut, twenty years old, who, atier directing the chauffeur to hurry to a hospital, turned the revolver upon himself and sent a bullet into his Whether there had been a quarrel or the two heart, dying almost instantly. had agreed to die together has not yet been definitely determined, Lewis Becker, the chauffeur, is una- ble to throv’ any light on the affair, but the police believe, however, that {t was 1 case of deliberate murder and sulcide, The couple engaged the taxicab in the business section of the town short- |ly before 2 o'clock this morning, the |young man telling the chauffeur to| drive to the girl's home In the north- Jern section of the city. When the} vicinity of the young woman's home | was reached the chauffeur was startled to the hospital.” Recognizing that | something serfous had occurred, Becker rushed the machine to the Reading Hospital. Just as he entered the hos- pital grounds there was a second shot |inside the cab, Halting at the hos- |nurse, and she in turn called the In- | ternes. The young woman was found in a! heap on the seat of the cab. Her face! was covered with blood. There was no pulse, and it was found that she was dead. A bullet wound in the right aide of the head, together with powder burns on the flesh, told how she had met her end. Fired at close range, the bullet had completely passed through her head. The hurried examination of the man showed that he, too, was dead, having shot himself through the heart. There was nothing the hospital phy- siclan could do, and they immediately notified the police, who took charge of the bodies, Knaut was a telephone inspector, In- quiry Into the case developed that Knaut had asked several persons yes- jterday to lend him a revolver, saying he wanted to go to a masquerade ball, | Mise Rocktashel was a prepossess- ing young woman of lively disposition, Rocktashel, a Reading Railroad engi- |neer, and one of the best known rail- jroad men in this section, Her mother id to-day: “Why this thing occurred I cannot explain. Knaut and my daughter have always been good friends, and I under- stood that they were engaged to be married, I thought him a fine young man. Where they were last evening I do not know, but I know that they were at no place where they should not have been.” From ancther source it was learned that Knaut and the girl were at a social | gathering last evening and that later they were In a saloon. It was from there that they went to a nearby street corner, where the taxicab was engaged |to take them to her home. —= ||NDIAN CHIFF GERONIM | DIES A PRISUNER OF WAR. LAWTON, Okla. sian ct b, 17.—Geronlino, | the noted In ef, died to-day at Fort siti re vad been confined of war for a number of as a prisoner | yea —<»—— Fine New Turkish Baths now a at the New Pulitzer Bulidin, Onl; bi im establishment. ‘Modern in bint detail, lecttic and Tw Dy a al ‘aise berber sop open day and AES SIGH FIANCE ENDS HER LI — 6 Pretty Daughter of Retired Contractor Cuts Throat in Locked Closet. DIES IN FATHER’S ARMS. Parent Smashes Door in Time to Find Miss McBride Expiring. Tda McBride, years old and engaged to wed, loclid beautiful, twenty-eight hereelf In a clothes closet on tra third floor of her father’s residence at No. 5&4 West One Hundred street, this afternoon wna cut her throw ated on nd Forty-thind and wrists with a raz She hour later. Hearing the fall of the tidy on the! floor above the father, Taonus Melride, a wealthy retired contrivror, rushed ups stairs and found the room empty. ans attracted his attention ta the closet, which was locked, and be smashed the door. The young woman, street costume, was lying on the floor alive and consclous, She conversed with her father and clasped her arms around his neck ina dying embrace. Dr. James H. Potter, of No, 520 West One Hun dred and Forty-third street, was hastily summoned, but the girl could not be saved, The young man to whom the suicide was engaged {8 iil, and Miss McBride had been nursing him, Late hours and worry during the last few weeks brought a wonderful change over her, and from a gay, bright, vivacious young woman she became melancholy and sick. “T took her out for a walk to-day and fed to cheer her,” said Mr. McBride he was despondent. We entered the house together and she went to her room to change her dress. thing L knew was when her body fell to the floor, and I rushed upstairs to find the clothes closet locked.” Coroner Acritellt notified the police and reported the case a suicide. Miss McBride's fiancee, whom she had nursed through pneumonta, was Thomas Jewell, of the firm of McVickar & Gail- lard, a Pine street real estate firm. It was announced to-day chat he had passed the climax of his {llness and Was well on the way to recovery Both the young people were very well known {n Harlem, and the announce- ment of thelr engagement was received with great rejoicing among all their friends. When Mr, Jewell's mother was told this afternoon that Miss Jewell had met with an accident she at once assumed that part of the truth was being held from her and cried: “I know—she has Killed herself!” and fainted. Mr, Jewell was not well enough to be told of his flance's death, a ed EXTRA CONGRESS SESSION CALLED FOR MARCH 15. fully dressed | The nex: | ‘SCORES INJURED IN HARLEM RIOT 000 LIVES LOST IN EARTHQUAKE The 17, | “Circulation Books Open to All,”’ | 1909, ‘Young Millionaire Protege and Daughier of Railroad King. ROBT Ww GOBLET CHL BURNED OAT IN LCA FLA; STE YN Mrs, Buchelt Had Left Them While Attending Duties as Janitress, | President-Elect Taft Authorizes An-| A tragedy of the tenements, such as nouncement After Date Has Been Agreed on With Leaders, WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The extra session of Congress will be convened o, March 15. This date was definitely re tled and President-elect Taft au- thorized the announcement Discusison as to the time for calling the extra session was had to-day between Mr. Taft, Senators Hale and Knox and Speaker Cannon. The date of the extra session called for the purpose of tariff revision was fixed at a conference to-day between President-elect Taft, Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon, which in turn followed a conference last night be- tween Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon, held at the request of Mr, Taft, who desired that the Senate and House should be in harmony date of the convening of the session When official announcement was made over the by Mr. Payne there was no discussion Jas to the length of time that would likely be required to enact a tarift bill sober TAMPA RESULTS. FIRST RACE—Five furlongs; three- year-olds and upward; selling. —Alegra, 102 (Brown), 5 to 1 and 2 to 1, won; Mollie Moonshine, % (Lovell), 6 to 1 and 2 to 1, second; Brown Jug, 18 (Troxler), 3 to 1 and even, third. | Time—t.06 1-4 Redemption, — Boomerang, _Tomochict, Etal, H. J.’ MoCarthy and Escuta also ran. only the very poor may suffer, happened in the six-story building av Two little East | Bightieth street to-day irls, locked In a flat, \p yed with matches. of them te di There were all ¢ d, the other is dying, e needed settings for this pitiful little episode, The theatre of action was a three-room flat, rear, on the ground iloor, where lived Alvin | Buchelt, a worker in a candy factory, | his wife, Marie, and his five children— | Otto, aged eleven; | Freda, aged seven; and Lena, aged Harry, aged nine; Emily, aged five, hree, Otto, Harry and Freda go to school. Afters iw the elder iren to school to-day Mrs. Buchelt locked her two litttle girls in the fla and went to| the top floor the halls and broon airway to sweep down | It Is supposed the’ baby found matche set Nerself on fire to the jour creaming yn the door with her hbor heard her and Way, The door to the Ke was help- at call tor Mrs. ily, with her dress and hair ablaze, jtumbled out Under a sewing machine in a corner of the kitchen was a charred mass that ‘haa been a short time before a laug! ing, plump and happy baby. : HARRI MAN MARIN HA YOUNG GOELET HS TAS MUA Talented Daughter of Magnate Also in Party Seeking Pleasure. | | E. H .Harriman, the railroad king, | with his party, arrived to-day at San Antonto, Texas, where he will remain some days, According to dispatches received at the Union Pacific headquart- ers, No, 10) Broadway, Mr Harriman was in splendid spirits and much im- proved health In addition to Mr. Harrlman's stenog- raphers, the sole members of his party are his elde: aghter, Miss Mary Har- riman, a telented and beautiful young woman, and Robert Walton Goelet, of No, 591 Fifth avenue, scion of the | famous family, and recent protege of Mr. Harriman. Mr. Goelet entered the Harriman fold during the Ilinois Cen- tral struggle with Stuyvesant Fish, and since then he has been an assiduous student of Harriman methods. Mr. Harriman has been “breaking in" Goelet with the care usually extendet by a father toa son. That the ratiroad | king is v ond of the young man has been apparent for some months past, and he has spared neither time nor patience in extending the knowledge of young et Dr. William ¢ f No. @ West Fitty-eighth str luced to dis- cuss Mr, Harriman's health, in view of reports circulated in Wall street that his wealthy patient was yeally in much poorer health than had been reported. “These reports are all started by the bear interests in Wall street, who seek to profit by Mr. Harriman’s absence,” said Dr. Lyle. "Mr. Harriman ts in much better health than has been re { ported. His malady is muscular rheu- matism. There {s no nervous affection, as was reported. He left for this trip without @ physiclan in his party, and 1 am prescribing for him by telegraph, | "Since his arrival in the warmer climate I have received word from him railroad {and he reports that he {s feeling fine. | He w ol the ranches and take the benefit of outdoor 1 If the weather in Sa nio turns damp, Le t « t dry and tonto uperating and sightseeing with the members of his | party. Bight shed tents, with hardwood floors and every conveniouce of home life, have been Atted up for him, A telegraph office is part of the settie- ment. PRICE ONE CENT. GRAND JURY IN WASHINGTON INDIGTS THE WORLD FOR LIBEL $$$ Charged That Stories About Panama Purchase Reflect Upon President Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Nelson Cromwelland Others, INDICTMENTS ALSO AGAINST EDITOR INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. J. P. Morgan, Douglas Robinson, Charles P. Taft Also in the List of Men S:id to Hzv2 Been Libelled. By Associated Press.) | WASHINGTON, Feb, 17,—The Federal Grand Jury to-day re '{urned indictments against the Press Publishing Company, of New York (New York World) and Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb M. Van Hamm and Rob- ert H. Lyman, editors of that paper, and the owners of the Indianapolis News, Delavan Smith and Charles R. Williams, charging libel in connec- tion with the purchase of the Panama Canal, The indictment against the publishers of the Indianapolis News charges Delavan Smith and Charles R, Wiliams with the crime of libel on seven counts, and that directed against The World charges Joseph | Pulitzer, Caleb M. Van Hamm, Robert H. Lyman and the Press Publish- ing Company with libel in five counts. The persons alleged to have been libelled in the different stories are President Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan, Charles P, Taft, Elihu Root, Douglas Robinson and William Nelson Cromwell. ‘The indictments were filed before Justice Gould, in Criminal Court No.1. The Court directed the issuance of a summons for the Press Pub- lishing Company, and hench warrants for the defendants, As soon as the indictments were announced District-Attorney Baker moved that bench warrants be issued for the arrest of the individual de- fendants and summonses be issued for service upon the corporate bodies, ‘This motion was granted by the Court, with the consent of Attorney Henry E, Davis, of Washigton, representing The World, on the under- standing that immediate service on his clients would not be made. The indictments against all the parties are substantially identical, and are very eluoorate, seiting out a complete history of the transaction by which the United States acquired title to the Panama Canal property | from the French Company, Extensive quotations from news articles | and editorials, published both by the New York World and by the Ine dianapolis News, are given in the indictments, In addition, they contain | the unusual feature of photographic likenesses of the men who have fig- | ured in the stories, and the reproduction of a cartoon Which appeared in | the Indianapolis News representing Norman E. Mack digging up evidence lin the canal zone against Cromwell, Charles P, Taft and J, Pierpont Morgan, who are represented as overlooking the operation, The World pictures of Charles P. Tatt, Douglas Robinson and William Nelson Crom. 7 ~, well, putushed in connection with the story “about great Panama Canal deal,” are reproduced in the indictment against that paper. | In both indictments the second count charges that the publications “unlawfully and maliciously” were intended “to vilify the said Charles P. Taft, the said William Nelson Cromwell and the said J, Pierpont Morgan and to bring them and each of them into public scandal, cote tempt, ridicule, infamy and disgrace.” It is alleged in the indictment against the Indianapolis News that that paper, through its edi d proprietors, “unlawfully and maliciously” contrived and intended “to vility and defame the said Theodore Roose- velt, Presiden of the United States; the said J. Pierpont Morgan, the said Charles P. Taft, the said Douglas Robinson and the said William Nedson Cromwell, public scandal, contempt, ridi- | cule, infamy and disgrace.’ and to bring them into riet of oath, do a, In and for the Di 1, upon t FULL COPY OF THE INDICTMENT AGAINST THE WORLD. bat the time and) times, of. the ommission 5 ss Publishing Trae Crea T GET c tzer, Caleb M ' v vert H. Lyman, of 1 the sev= \ he Press t Put body core porate Incorporated under the laws of 6 January the State of New York, and was @ne \ N gaged S of publishing a Tne grid jurors 01 led The World in the tates | dally newspagpr call